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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Nicola de Rous, widow of Alan de Rous. de Rous Nicola Chancellor. Nicola, widow of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/307/15312
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/307/15312
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1278]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Nicola de Rous, widow of Alan de Rous.
- Name(s)
- de Rous, Nicola
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- Nicola, widow of Alan de Rous requests justice. Judgment was passed for her on the eve of St John [before] Seyton and Lovetot, for which Littlebury was to make her a writ of seisin, and he told her he would bring it to her on Saturday but then said that he had lost the writ, so she appeared before Seyton and told him that the writ by which she should have seisin of her dower was lost and requested her dower. Then Littlebury came with a writ that her things had been seised into the King's hand at the quinzaine of Michaelmas, and she took her writ and went to the sheriff of Oxford who answered that she had been betrayed because her dower had been seized into the King's hand, after which she went to Windsor and complained before Kirkby and requested a writ to speed her business and when she had this writ sent it to Holland at the Bench, who asked Littlebury why he did not make a writ of seisin of her dower and he answered because he could not find any pledges in his writ.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Henley (Henley on Thames), [Oxfordshire]
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- Windsor, [Berkshire].
- People mentioned
- [Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells], Chancellor
- Alan de Rous of Henley
- Roger de Seyton, justice
- John de Lovetoth (Lovetot), justice
- Robert de Litlebr' (Littlebury)
- John de Kyrkeby (Kirkby)
- Thomas de Houlande (Holland).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? 1278 since the petition refers to Roger de Seyton and John de Lovetot as justices.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518367/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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